Abstract
A systematic study was conducted to investigate the morphology transitions that occur in polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PEO) bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCP) upon varying PEO volume fraction (fPEO) from 22% to 81%. A series of PS-b-PEO BBCPs with different PEO side chain lengths were prepared using ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of PEO–norbornene (PEO-NB) (Mn ∼ 0.75, 2.0, or 5.0 kg/mol) and PS–norbornene (PS-NB) (Mn ∼ 3.5 kg/mol) macromonomers (MM). A map of fPEO versus side chain asymmetry (Mn(PEO-NB)/Mn(PS-NB)) was constructed to describe the BBCP phase behavior. Symmetric and asymmetric lamellar morphologies were observed in the BBCPs over an exceptionally wide range of fPEO from 28% to 72%. At high fPEO, crystallization of PEO was evident. Temperature-controlled SAXS and WAXS revealed the presence of high order reflections arising from phase segregation above the PEO melting point. A microphase transition temperature TMST was observed over a temperature range of 150–180...
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